The recording studio took months to build, several shifts of nearly 48 hours without sleep, hallucinating, and several months for my back to recover.
It was an adventure and I finally got to put years of theoretical knowledge into actual practice…and I learned a great deal too.
The first step was designing a room that could be constructed without making any material changes to the existing room, a room which could be taken down quickly and easily should we need to. So we decided to take a modular approach, building several 8ft x 4ft panels. These were built in the dance studio and then transported over to the room and installed one at a time. They were linked onto the neighbouring panel using heavy duty custom made metal H pins, sort of looked like rugby posts, which would lock the wall panels together and then provide a pin for the ceiling beams.
Once the walls were done, the ceiling panels were attached directly onto beams and the whole thing was filled with mineral wool, sealed with acoustic sealant and then painted…a whole heap of times.
All sounds simple…it wasn’t!